Clean House: Messiest House in America

[Anonymous]

Does anybody watch this show? There is a degree of "trifling" that will just astound you, but the family from Cincinatti-- a mother and daughter whose junk "almost" filled a 7000 (yes, that's THOUSAND) sq ft mall just takes the cake. That wasn't just "clutter", that was FILTH, and they had the nerve to be ungrateful louts who got a new leas on living, new furnishings, and such... And, they weren't faking for the camera, as some people do. They were really and truly ungrateful!

The daughter was in denial, the mother was plain old delusional, and that house should have just been torched by hazmat!

[llecs]

Which channel?

[Anonymous]

It comes on the Style channel. Here's a link to the show:

http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/shows/cleanhouse/index.jsp

They're all pretty bad (the families and the messes) but this is the family that I'm specifically referring to. The episode is going to be on again at 6pm ET:

http://www.mystyle.com/mystyle/b3482_meet_bagliens.html

[Anonymous]

All those people with the messiest houses are like that. All of them are in denial and ungrateful. Its ridiculous. If I were the producers of the show and people acted like the people in Cin. I would send the bill for all of the repairs/makeovers/cleaning out. Of course, most of these people will revert right back to were they were before because hording is an illness.

She did tell the people in New York that if they gave her staff any more of a hard time they would pack up everything and leave--leaving all of their crap on the street/frontlawn/backlawn. They still gave her a hard time. They have such crap, too! I will say one thing, everytime I see these people, I feel good about the 6-8 bins of extra crap that I have. It also inspires me to get rid of some things.

[fishbjc]

Sadly my in-laws house is as bad if not worse than the Cincinnati lady.  Not because of fil, but his wife.  She lost a MICROWAVE oven in the house, still cannot find it.  Her crap has spilled from the garage onto their driveway.

Their pool table has been covered for years with clothing that is dry rotted.  Bags of pillows have mice nesting in them, but she still is going to find *a use* for them.

Their back yard probably has ten sets of tables/chairs which haven't been used in years.  Their back patio is covered with rubbermaid bins of crap that she may *find a use for* someday.

He hates living that way, but she has a sickness...indeed she does.  If you go visit, you have to pee in the yard in a bucket with water...they won't let you in the house.  RIDICULOUS AND DISGUSTING.

[fishbjc]

I did see the Cincinnati show.  I'll give her a few months & this lovely house will be filled again. 

Have you guys ever seen HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE on the BBC?  OMG...pure squallor and filth.

[Anonymous]

Our best friend's wife is the same way. They have a 14 yo daughter and the mom has kept ALL of her clothes from birth to now. They're all folded up and left everywhere in piles. Kitchen, dining room, living room, etc.

She even bought rolling garment racks (several of them ~ the expensive kind) and uses them for HER clothes ~ again, in the living room, dining room, etc.

They hired an organization expert about 3 years ago and never made a move on what the expert told them to do. So, in essence, they paid $3K for NOTHING.

She refuses to do ANYTHING. They only eat take-out, HE does the housework (but isn't allowed to touch the clothes), pays the bills, takes care of the daughter, etc.

Right now, they're separated (he won't file for divorce and is hoping she will) and she still calls him to run home and fix things around the house. If he doesn't jump when she calls, he's "pathetic" and "useless."

He is the most amazing guy. Sweet, kind, hard-working .... just a big ol' teddy bear. Women flirt with him like crazy and yet he's been faithful to that witch for over 20 years. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

Oooh... I watch that show too. I practically have to keep a puke bucket by my feet to watch it, but it's like a horrid traffic accident that you can't turn away from. Those people who live like that need to be institutionalized. Seriously. I don't know how they aren't dead, some of them, from disease and such... When they get the lab results from some of those homes... ACK! Whoo! It makes me hot and dizzy just thinking about it.

The Clean House Messiest Home from last year could have been on the "How Clean is Your House" show. Those filthy people actually had a closet full of 5 or 6 year old cat poop. The cats had been dead for YEARS, and the stench was so awful that they closed the closet and put boxes in front of it... instead of cleaning it up! :-o Talk about idiotic. Their bathroom was an environmental disaster. The toilet... I can't even think of, because I'll throw-up.

And, they had the nerve to want a baby. I kept thinking that for all they knew, they had a baby, and it was lost in that filth. Heck, probably all sorts of relatives were captive under that crap, never to be seen or heard from again. And these people have the audacity to want to get on TV!

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@fishbjc wrote:

I did see the Cincinnati show.  I'll give her a few months & this lovely house will be filled again. 

Have you guys ever seen HOW CLEAN IS YOUR HOUSE on the BBC?  OMG...pure squallor and filth.

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[Anonymous]

Wonderin,

I think Trish (the organizer) put it best. That woman and her need to horde her adult daughter's childhood things (in addition to every other thing in the world) was just creepy. She kept calling them "memories"... I kept thinking that the stupid daughter didn't have a chance to keep any memories, because she was too busy living in squalor amongst the actual STUFF.

Did you see how they'd buy groceries because they LOST the groceries that they purchasedt before? Lost their groceries... Couldn't they just follow the stench?

And then, the mother got defensive when Neicey smelled something "sour" in their kitchen. I think she was trying to put it nicely, and not just say, "Girlfriend, your kitchen is stank!" 

[llecs]

Thanks LilMirth for posting that. I did catch the re-run yesterday. It is a sickness I suppose.